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This book includes facsimile images of five Borges essays, with an introduction by Daniel Balderston. Each essay is accompanied by a typographical transcription, an introduction and a commentary. Prepared with Mariana Di Ció and María Celeste Martín. 164 pages.

International Conference: Borges's Legacy around the world, Readers and Readings

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Borges' s texts continue to travel around the world; they have been translated into several languages and continue to fascinate and fertilize world literature. Few writings have inspired so many writers and critics in all disciplinary fields. Borges´s writings have not only constituted an inexhaustible universal inter-text but also give its readers an infinite and constantly renewed pleasure. More than a century after his birth and more than thirty years after his death, this author is more alive than before. His writing becomes the allegory of human thought that, through an elegant language, reflects his thoughts, dreams and emotions. This Argentinean author's literature reflects the complexity of the modern world through brief, concise but profound forms of writing.

How Borges Wrote: Book presentation and Symposium on the Creative Process of Jorge Luis Borges

Book presentation and Symposium marking the publication of How Borges Wrote, by Daniel Balderston, Director of the Borges Center and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh. The book is published by University of Virginia Press.

Poemas y prosas breves

The Future of Borges Studies: March 21-23, 2018

A conference to celebrate the formal agreement for cooperation between the Borges Center and the new Centro Borges de Documentación of the Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno, the Argentine National Library.

Fishburn, Hidden Pleasures of Borges's Fiction and revised edition of A Dictionary of Borges

The Borges Center published Hidden Pleasures of Borges's Fictions, a selection of Evelyn Fishburn's essays, in 2015. We also host a revised edition of Evelyn Fishburn's A Dictionary of Borges, which is available to download. Just click on this link.